Utah school takes lunches from kids with debts

1:17 PM,
Jan. 30, 2014

Written by

Jessica Durango
USA TODAY

Parents are angry with Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City after workers took lunches from up to 40 kids with unpaid balances and threw them away, several media outlets reported.

Salt Lake City District spokesman Jason Olsen told the Salt Lake Tribune that parents with balances were contacted via phone Monday and Tuesday. They weren't able to reach all parents before the child-nutrition manager decided to withhold lunches to deal with the debts.

"She took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" Sophia Isom, a fifth-grader at the school, told NBC ...